Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-21
FORESIGHT AND mNDsIGHT.

Iatsllinqsncer's Editorial IEteLiigslc RS EdHor'd
Of June 10. q jung ~ H.,
After all il is true that Inc sS9rin OF Psasi
the President is to re- uOn Whien tne IseS y
States the fiaqs captured now complaeently re-
from them in battle. Inc terred 70 Oy ms apo a
IatsEliOsRcer dos not glsts as 4 Wantoh MAJ
49, ~ bIfslrirnl frame ing of the bloody shirt
nj mimi mo Jrhich s0Fgea cruel stirring up OF
~ ~ ryDtsDlD0rd ies hare dead issues and buried
hsll thrJlrE bgths fact that reSentments SsAce uS
~ inns are 10 90 back Il Rd0s Were Issue until
- 80 fbs ,sr,, nj Lhe col the President rake them
ora IN lrhich lcs se obje-p oRd reminded the cOdn-
ION b,f fhs tfaparraEtsd tn that thcB are IN er-
1rfigg OF he President ii sacC II is not d.tcuh 10
NJ Drr9i,ss .fr me responsibility O
Those flags are the drOUsing IrhEtcrer Of ~
nrouarty of the United feeliHd has been aroused,
States, ana il j. not the and pr0r0ktRg tthdtettT
privilege OF the PreSl- hard lrOrlS mare ote7t u''
dent 10 dispose Of them. tered on amer S'os:
IfCOngreSs desires To re- since The peace Of Apo
Tu-p tbern n may do 80. Wasr no such bilpdCr mas
and they ought not TO been made bV any public
20 back in any o her man. me OgeliSe HyuiItss
way The President does ne rhots country Is az
mot Give away cannon grdrGtcd on the notorious
aTnmunition or teRts TACT that TIE return Of tbs
and ne has no right To taos tCds part Of u scheme
give away HagS blssi on no higher con-
I'M SUITES irhlrh lost steTdtiOR Than The further
ibnsg Raqs IL baHs hare no ing Of Mr.. CcreldRd's an
rIGl HDOR thgni and can dtridIdl inter6Sts TWAS
Ears tSIq hlt oRly as la cold and selfish through
trf of lyr1rg and gD0d feel out. But IL has pro-
mo aud this should be he duCed some heat OF It's
act Cf he Ps0pls,s rsprs- own, at tlme Oh yea, ga,
seHtTtuss nt CSRgTCS. when most OF US are not
Tbs President is usurp- enough.
ing a power 10 make
friends in the south.
The above are from the hteLigeReer's ed
itorials, with the exception of the italics,
which are ours. Four days ago, according
to the Iatelligeaeer, lit is not the return Of
the colors to which we see objection" 1t
was all well enough then TO send back
these battle flags. But the only thing
with which the TateHigeRcer then found
objection was the "unwarranted action of
the President in the premises. "
But now four days later, when the Pres
ident has seen his mistake and promptly
and gracefully corrected it, even the
thought of returning the battle flags us
an ofieIISe against the whole country"
Why is it that the hteHigeReer could see
no objection in the action per sc
OF returning the flags four days
ago, and regards 1t now an
''offense against the country" Why is it
that since Mr.. CLEVELAND has corrected
his "unwarranted action" the MteVigencer
regards that mo such blunder has been
made by any public man?'
We can not explain this in any other
way than that four days ago, when the
Eatelligencsr was talking sensible, it was
expressing its own sentiments, and that
the remarks OF yesterday are the result OF
sucking the same teat that FAIRCHILD
and HALSTEAD sucks.
ThriN, Horatio, thrift,